Dr.Grass said: kowenicki said: Hundreds. I have Reason and Ableton live! Not to mention the unbelievable korg apps and then historic fairlight and mellotronics apps. Actually play.... Keyboards a bit, guitar a bit and a brass instrument reasonably well. You might as well be speaking Chinese

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Reason and Ableton are music production software packages.... incredibly powerful and versatile.  You dont neccessarily need any midi interface equipment such as a proper keyboard or pads, it is possible to create something with just the software and your compueter keyboard and mouse.

I am into the ipad apps at the moment too, korg ims20 is a app reproduction of the classic korg analog synth.. awesome sounds from that. 

I also love the rebirth app that has the classic 808 and 909's.   Genius in its simplicity. You can have a decent acid track done in minutes.

The new Teniro-on is interesting as a very cheap alternative to a real yamaha tenori. 

The fairlight is the app version of the real fairlight, which was the first proper sampler/sequencer available.